Garment hanger



Patented Sept. 9, 1947 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE GARMENT HANGER James W. Spires, Toluca, Ill.

Application August 2 1, 1945, Serial No. 611,801

1 Claim.

The present invention relates to garment hangers and the primary object of the invention is to provide a hanger adapted to hold a coat and trousers and preserve the shape of the coat indefinitely.

Another object of the invention is to provide a coat hanger whichis well adapted to be packed when traveling and garments are on the hanger.

A further object of the invention is to provide a coat hanger constructed to fit the principal parts of a coat and maintain it in prime shape.

Still another object of the invention is to provide a garment hanger of simpler and more compact construction than is disclosed in prior devices.

In the accompanying drawings illustrating the invention,

Figure l is a perspective invention with the hook in a raised position.

Figure 2 is a side elevation of the invention with coat and pants in dotted lines and the hook in. dotted lines between a raised and lowered position.

Figure 3 is a fragmentary detail of the arch for arm holes, being a front elevation.

In the description and drawings like numerals designate the same parts of construction.

This invention is constructed as a unit but in its simplest aspects it consists of a form for the shoulders and-arm holes, a form for the collar and back and a form for the front and lapels of a coat, which as one unit cooperate to preserve the usual shape of the garment before it is worn. To the foregoing features is added a part for holding pants which will facilitate the function of the back form. The arrangement and relation of the foregoing parts are involved in the inventive concept.

The form for the front and lapels of a coat comprise the divergent parts I and 2 which project outwardly and downwardly from the axis of the bail 3 for the hanger hook 4. Parts I and 2 of the front form are bent away from each other at an obtuse angle as at 5 and 6 to a constricted relationship and then continued to a substantially horizontal part I which is semi-circular in form. This part I is adapted to support the coat collar. The parts I and 2 are bent at their lower extremities to produce substantially semicircular or arched forms 8 and 9 which are adapted to fit the arm holes of the coat. The ends l0, at the back of the hanger are then bent inwardly towards each other on a substantially horizontal line and joined as at H. Shoulders are formed on the longer end, suitably spaced apart to contain a tubular element I2 which is mounted on the said longer end and adapted to hold the pants. This element may be inade of cardboard or other suitable material.

The shoulder form I3 is connected at its ends to the arched arm hole forms 8 and extends upwardly on inclines to the semi-circular coat collar form I which it crosses and to which it is fastened by coils or other suitable means. This construction also serves to brace said form 1 and maintain its shape.

The back form [4 is secured at its top to the back of the collar form I and depends therefrom in, practically, a vertical plane. It comprises a short single piece with divergent arms inclined toward the arm hole forms to which the ends are secured. When desirable for the purpose of packing, the pivoted bail 3 can be dropped either backward or forward to a depending, vertical position.

These hangers can be readily packed in containers for shipment in quantities by stacking them in each other in vertical relation.

It will be understood that the hanger may be constructed of wire and/or plastics or molded as a shell in plastics without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.

Having thus described, my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

In a garment hanger having a preformed wire coat-supporting element, the combination, which comprises a wire horizontal bar with ofiset sockets spaced from the ends, a hook having outwardly extending legs with the lower ends of the legs pivotally mounted in the offset portions of said horizontal bar, a rearwardly extending arcuate wire member conforming to the shape of a collar of a coat in the wearing position with the ends thereof attached to the ends of the horizontal bar, downwardly sloping, laterally extending shoulder elements having centrally disposed upper bars and side bars with vertically disposed arcuate sections connecting the outer ends of the upper and side bars, wherein the inner ends of the side bars at the front extend diagonally upward and then backward to meet the opposite ends of the reawardly extending arcuate collar-forming member, the side bars at the rear extend inward and slope upward and are connected to the center of the rearwardly extending arcuate collar-forming member by vertically extending sections, and the rear ends of said vertically disposed arcuate sections at the outer ends of the shoulder element extend horizontally inward, and. a trousers-supporting roller freely positioned on said inwardly extend- UNITED STATES PATENTS ing ends of the vertically disposed arcuate sec- Number Name Date tions of the shoulder element. 1,444,107 Canham 2 JAMES W SPIRES 1,258,476 Severance Mar. 5, 1918 640,616 Brock Jan. 2, 1900 REFERENCES CITED 778,007 Carlson Dec. 20, 1904 779,062 Beatly Jan. 3, 1905 The following references are of record in the file of this patent: 847.329 Gebhart Mar. 19, 1907 

